We asked 11 media outlets how their coverage has changed since Trump's election — here's what they said

Between his declaration of the press as the "opposition
party" and his adviser's use of "alternative facts,"
President Donald Trump's contempt for mainstream media outlets
has drawn the relationship between journalists and the nation's
commander-in-chief into murky territory.

While Trump boasts about his war with the media, his casual
relationship with facts and outright hostility toward many
reporters has
inspired industry leaders to
reflect on the nature of political journalism during the
Trump administration.

Newsrooms including The New York Times and Reuters
sent letters to their employees about their coverage of the new
administration and the political currents that have shaken the
post-Cold War world order.

Journalists have proposed both symbolic and more
consequential change for journalism in the Trump era.

Graydon Carter, editor of Vanity Fair, cited the president as the
reason his publication decided not to host a party for this
year's annual White House Correspondents Dinner. Media ethicists
such as New York University's Jay Rosen suggested fighting back
against the administration's falsehoods by halting interviews
with Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway and sending interns to
White House press briefings.

Regardless of whether they're frightened, unfazed, or motivated
by the new administration's declaration of war on the press, many
journalists are examining, and doubling down, on their coverage
of the new administration.

Business Insider spoke with a number of media leaders about
whether their coverage changed after the election. Here's what
they said:

Washington Post Executive Editor Martin Baron

"We’re covering this president as we’ve covered presidents in the
past. We haven’t changed how we do our jobs," Baron said.

Vox Editor-in-Chief Ezra Klein

"We're heavily staffing up to cover policy under the Trump White
House. We think the nuts-and-bolts of policy details often get
neglected for covering Trump's tweets, fights, and obsessions. So
we're focusing there, and hiring to make sure we can do it,"
Klein said.

The site is hiring several junior and senior policy reporters,
including one to cover the effect of economic policy on Americans
and one to cover distressed communities.

Daily Beast Editor-in-Chief John Avlon

"Every major event brings out new opportunities and obligations,
and obviously we need to recalibrate based on the challenge of
the time," Avlon said by phone.

"Part of our calculation was, regardless of who was elected
president, world news and national-security coverage would be
more on the front-burner than it necessarily was in a
presidential-election year. Because the first year of a
presidency is when global challengers, whether they’re other
nations or terrorist organizations, test the new president."

Avlon said The Daily Beast made several staff hires to address
that challenge, including new military and White House reporter
Kim Dozier and conservative columnist Matt Lewis.

"It’s really important to me that The Daily Beast stands out from
the pack of partisan news. And that’s part of ensuring that
we’ve got credibility on both sides of the aisles to have the
credibility to criticize," Avlon said. "Because if it’s all just
sort of easily dismissed as representing one predictable
political viewpoint, it loses some of its punch."

The Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg

After Trump's election, The Atlantic poached a number of
journalists, including BuzzFeed's McKay Coppins and Rosie Gray,
Politico's Julia Ioffe, and former New Republic editor Frank
Foer, to cover the new administration.

The Atlantic editor added that he was unfazed by Trump's
rhetorical barbs.

"Like all self-respecting journalists on the planet, rhetorical
attacks only tend to motivate us," Goldberg said.

New Yorker Editor David Remnick

Though he acknowledged in a phone interview that Trump's
ascendance caused him grave concern, Remnick told his newsroom
after Hillary Clinton's concession speech that the magazine "had
a job to do" following the election.

"We are going to be tough, we are going to go deep, we are going
to be fearless, but we are going to be fair," Remnick said he
told his magazine's staff.

BuzzFeed News Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith

"One difference is obviously Trump's unusually close and
obsessive relationship with the media, particularly TV, which is
why we brought Steven Perlberg in on a Trump and media beat on
our politics team," Smith said.

"More broadly, though, we plan to continue the tough, fair
coverage that we began on the campaign."

CBS News Washington Bureau Chief Chris Isham

Isham said CBS was making a "very modest supplementation of our
staff" in response to the sheer volume of news, which he said was
typical for a new administration, and which CBS was planning to
do no matter who was elected.

Though some observers have expressed concern about Trump's war on
the free press, Isham dismissed the Trump administration's barbs,
maintaining that it is not journalists' job to "get all
wrapped-up in how they feel about us."

"Our job is to report on the administration and what they’re
doing and not to get caught up in a tit-for-tat with the White
House on how they feel about us," he said. "Our job is to report
on what they’re doing. So my advice to our folks is to keep the
eye on the ball, keep focused, continue to report accurately,
fairly, objectively the way you’ve been doing."

Daily Caller Editor-in-Chief Vince Coglianese

"We're covering the media a lot more now. The reflexive hysteria
among the mainstream press has been deeply revealing and totally
intriguing to document. We'll keep following it," Coglianese
said.

The editor doubted that media outlets were evaluating their own
coverage after the 2016 election.

"Have you actually found any outlets doing genuine soul
searching? I'd be impressed, if so. Everyone's acting like the
election merely confirmed all of their existing biases," he said.

Mic Chief Strategy Officer Cory Haik

"We are adding dedicated staff, both in New York and DC, which we
never had before," Haik said.

"Because of the election, there was a need to clarify what Mic's
role would be for our audience, and that is to help them navigate
the changes in policy, and the impact on underrepresented
communities of color, immigrants, women, and those interested in
social justice and issues there within. This was always our
focus, but a line of reporting in service to those groups, as
well as generally reporting on the daily news of the
administration, is more important than ever."

Mic launched a newsletter, "Navigating Trump's America," and said
it will aggressively cover protests across the US.

"We are very much positioned to cover this groundswell in an
important way," Haik said.

Talking Points Memo Editor-in-Chief Josh Marshall

"TPM has always been far less wedded to 'false balance' than
other publications, particularly large corporate news outlets. So
we have less to adjust to. We've always been ready to call a lie
a lie, a falsehood a falsehood. Trump just makes it a more useful
skill," Marshall said.

"The big change — one that is in the process of coming online as
we onboard a series of new hires — is that we are deepening our
investment in investigative reporting because we can already see
that this administration is uniquely opaque and likely to be
uniquely corrupt."

Washington Free Beacon Editor-in-Chief Matthew Continetti

"We're doing what we've always done: reporting accurate stories
that otherwise wouldn't see the light of day, and having fun in
the process," Continetti said.